The Irish standard., 1887-08-27

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will participate in the battle. There
will be IA pieces OF artillery and 5000
small arms used in the engagement,
which will ue the grandest exhibition
of the kind ever seen in this country.
A GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
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protection for Irish industries?" They
offered him more in 1885 than Mir.
Gladstone had offered since, and when
Mr.. Parnell informed them of the state
of his mind they went tabout the country
making speeches which were intended
to be precursors and heralds of a
measure of Home Rule for Ireland. If
the Tories had obtained working ma
jority in the election of 1885 they would
have passed Home Rule. They were
entitled to expect it~-they had given
their word, and they could ask no more.
That being SO they had no cause to
complain that Manchester in 1885 re-
turned five Conservatives. But the
general election did not give the Tories
a working majority; they found that
the vote of the Irish party was not
strong enough to keep them in power,
SO instead Of giving them Home Rule
they began to call them Hottentots, and
instead of bidding good by to coercion,
which before the election they had been
vigorously denouncing, they attempted
to suppress the National League. Last
year Mr.. Gladstone adopted and declared
apolicy of Home Rule tor Ireland. Did
Manchester reject it? (No.) Instead of
one Liberal they returned three (cheers),
and three better, sounder or more
honorable Liberals than Mr. Jacob
Bright (cheers), Sir Henry Roscoe and
MI. Schwann (cheers) were not to be
found inside or outside the House OF
Commons. He was certain that when
next Manchester was called upon the
electors would return six Liberals to
the House Of Commons. They knew
Mr.. Balfour rather better now than they
did a year ago-they knew him now as
the sultan of Dublin Castle. He be-
lieved that at the next election they
would obllge that gentleman to play
the part of Jonah--tl1ey would throw
him over to save The ship of state. The
last resort Of the choice spirits of the
Tory party in the House of Commons
was to make set upon some Irish mem.
ber-to fasten deliberately upon some
man who was known to be more quick
tempered than others, or upon some
man whose nerves were u1lstrung by
protracted public Iabors, and to endea-
vor by Intrusion, irritation and insult to
excite and goad that man into some
word Of anger which might draw down
upon him the censure OF the chair, and
prejudice the English mind against the
Irish members. From what he knew
of Englishmen, he was convinced that
they had greater regard for man who
allowed his natural temper a little fair
play than the man who would be dull or
cold enough to be silentas block under
the pressure of insult a1d provocation.
Under the coercion act, cities had been
proclaimed where three weeks ago white
gloves were given ty her majestys
Judges (shame), and counties had been
proclaimed for offences which had not
been committed in those counties for
months and years. After the coercion
came the remedy, Which ought to have
preceded it, but the cure was almost
worse than the disease. The first point
was eviction made. easy, and another
point was that the Irish tenant was to
be saved from ruin by making him q
bankrupt. That idea had now been
abandoned. They were to have rents
reduced at last, and the government
were doing now with very bad grace
what they ought to have done at the be-
ginning Of the year. The Irish had
faith in the English people and in Mr.
Gladstone, and looked forward in a
calm and hopeful spirit to the day when
the English and Irish people would be
united. not by union which mad no
validity except on parchment not by
union maintained by 10000 bayonets.
but by union rendered sacred by the
united intelligence of honest men, which
no power on earth could break, and
which would constitute the impregnable
rampant Of liberty and free affection:
Mr.. Sexton was entertained at banquet
at the Grand Hotel, subsequently. Mr..
Charles O'Neill presided. In response
to the toast of the Irish Parliamentary
Party, MIR. Sexton said the chairman
had referred to the fact that the citizens
of Dublin honored him with nomina-
tion to the civic chair next year. He
had accepted the honor in the hope that
one OF other of two events might hap
pea-the hope that it might be his duty
as chief magistrate to take part in the
opening Of the cold House at Home"
Cheers. That might perhaps be too
sanguiue a nope. C'No.") AT any
rate, if it were not next year it might
be some year soon; The other 5h hope was IS
that, although the OLD House might
still be closed the Mansion House would
be open, and it would not be his fault if
he had not the honor Of welcoming into